So what's the hassle, you ask? What's the big hubbub? Well it's two-fold:

1) That these girls (immediately below is a photo of one them from another shoot) are not fat ...

2) It's that when the fashion industry goes out on a limb to feature someone who isn't a size double zero stick insect they only do so in arty, soft-porn ways as if women with hips and breasts and, yes, some stomach are only useful as voluptuaries and not as legitimate examples of style and taste.

"We have been fed a steady diet of rail thin, white, tall, youth for the most part. Thus instead of delving further into what Beauty means to us as individuals, the tendency is not to question authority. And VOGUE is certainly the pinnacle of authority when it comes to Fashion."

I agree with Velvet, it would be nice if fashion caught up with women and it would be nice if women caught up with reality and instead of trying to mimic the images we usually see in Vogue (I still love you, Vogue) and elsewhere, we decided to be the best we can be for ourselves.

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